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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter from Port Arthur, Texas. As a youth Joplin was ridiculed by her fellow students due to her unconventional appearance and personal beliefs. She later sang about her experience at school through her song "Ego Rock". Early in her life, Joplin cultivated a rebellious and unconventional lifestyle, becoming a beatnik poet. She began her singing career as a folk and blues singer in San Francisco, playing clubs and bars with her guitar and auto-harp.
Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.
Janis Joplin only charted five singles in her life but her hits and other popular songs from throughout her short four year career include "Down On Me", "Bye, Bye Baby", "Coo Coo", "Summertime", "Piece of My Heart", "Turtle Blues", "Ball 'n' Chain", "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)", "Maybe", "To Love Somebody", "Kozmic Blues", "Work Me, Lord", "Move Over", "Cry Baby", "A Woman Left Lonely" "Get It While You Can", "My Baby", "Trust Me", "Mercedes Benz", "One Night Stand", "Raise Your Hand" and her only number one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee".
Actors: Remo Girone (actor), Stefania Casini (actress), Giuseppe Pagano (editor), Giovanni Bissaca (actor), Gianandrea Tintori (editor), Francesco Calabrese (director), Francesco Calabrese (writer), Cosimo Alemà (producer), Niccolò Gentili (actor), Enrico Audenino (director), Enrico Audenino (writer), Tommaso Neri (actor), Luca Legnani (producer), Cristina Marino (actress), Fulvio Compagnucci (producer),
Plot: It's the last week of June 2009. Andrea's parents left for a summer trip so he takes advantage of the situation to skip summer camp and make love for the first time with his girlfriend Eva. His choice triggers a series of events leading him to an on the road adventure along with his younger brother Tomaso, a huge fan of Michael Jackson, and Cesare, an old man met at a retirement home.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Anne LaBarbera (editor), Anne LaBarbera (writer), Anne LaBarbera (director), Damon Williams (producer), David Pencil (composer), Larry Soileau (actor), Larry Soileau (actor), Julia Brebner (actor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Bunthivy Nou (actress), Bunthivy Nou (miscellaneous crew), Danny Thebeau (miscellaneous crew), Danny Thebeau (actor), Michel Guitard (miscellaneous crew), BronweN (actor), D.J. Sweet (actor), D.J. Sweet (producer), D.J. Sweet (writer), D.J. Sweet (director), D.J. Sweet (editor), BronweN (miscellaneous crew), Dennis Poirier (miscellaneous crew), Chris Giles (miscellaneous crew), Andre Goguen (actor),
Plot: Short comedy about truth, family, and lesbians. The story traces the holiday festivities of unemployed wannabe-chef Amber, whose desire to finally win her mother's culinary approval is jeopardized when Willow, Amber's girlfriend, sets out to out Amber.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Xavier Santiago (actor), John Harrison (actor), Xavier Santiago (writer), Xavier Santiago (writer), Xavier Santiago (producer), Abdul Stone Jackson (producer), Davin Michaels (miscellaneous crew), Tami Jordan (actor), Noah Burger (writer), Noah Burger (director), Bruce Burger (editor), Noah Burger (actor), Noah Burger (writer), Patrick Robbins (writer), Anthony McMurray (actor),
Plot: Mr. Sullivan is a hard working man in middle management. Forced to hire a new position or lose his job, he makes a pact with Hanson, one of Satan's minions. Hansen gives Mr. Sullivan an ethereal being, Ivy who can interpret the thoughts of the final round of interviewees. Hilarity ensues as Mr. Sullivan discovers what we 'all think' and 'don't say'. But, when you make a deal with the devil, you often get more than you bargained for.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Kerstin Wiedé (producer), Michael Degen (actor), Wanja Mues (actor), Dorothea Walda (actress), Berengar Pfahl (producer), Manuel Cortez (actor), Matthias Raue (composer), Frank Bohn (costume designer), Verena Plangger (actress), Alissa Jung (actress), Nele Kiper (actress), Ercan Karacayli (actor), Felix Dünnemann (director), Stephanie Gossger (actress), Judith Pinnow (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: David Graham (actor), Barney Heywood (producer), Lucy Heywood (producer), Barney and Lucy Heywood (director), Barney Heywood (editor), Ben Kirkwood (actor),
Plot: A mundane trip to a DIY shop throws up an unexpected dilemma for seven-year-old Isaac when an old man offers to buy him an ice cream. Isaac should be waiting in the car and he knows that ice cream makes him hyperactive, but will that be enough to make him say no, or does this chance encounter encourage him to try a little taste of freedom?
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Tobias Moretti (actor), Detlev Buck (actor), Alexander Hahn (writer), Dominique Pinon (actor), Norman Hudis (writer), Alexander Hahn (director), Maria de Medeiros (actress), Alexander Hahn (actor), Klaus Hundsbichler (composer), Daniil Spivakovskiy (actor), Roland Düringer (actor), Yevgeni Sitokhin (actor), Chulpan Khamatova (actress), Thomas Oláh (costume designer), Thomas Oláh (actor),
Plot: Janu Nakts (St. John's Night) is a traditional Latvian celebration during which family and friends gather to build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a good time. According to legend, lovers and those who would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the "magic fern" on this night. This magic fern serves as the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in "Midsummer Madness" It is also a metaphor for the film's underlying theme - finding love. "MIDSUMMER MADNESS " is reflected in the recurring element of the magic fern, a metaphor (both in the film and in real life) for love. The question posed by the film is: can a search for love ever be successful? Each story deals with this question. An answer is provided at the film's conclusion in a humorous and unforgettable way: we see the legendary fern, glowing magically in a meadow. It exists after all! Then a cow ambles along and eats it. The deeper message, which is not obvious to the audience, is therefore: Yes, a search for love can be successful, though we are generally unaware of how to deal with it.
Keywords: airport, american-overseas, austrian, businessman, car, celebration, chaika, cult-film, cultural-diversity, culture-clashActors: Nikolaj Lie Kaas (actor), Jens Okking (actor), Kjeld Nørgaard (actor), Michael Obel (producer), Anders Thomas Jensen (writer), Birthe Neumann (actress), Jeppe Kaas (composer), Niels Olsen (actor), Thomas Bo Larsen (actor), Peter Gantzler (actor), Ole Thestrup (actor), Tomas Villum Jensen (director), Tomas Villum Jensen (writer), Kristian Halken (actor), Kirsten Lehfeldt (actress),
Plot: While changing the pipes in the tanningbeds at Golden Sun, Tommy meets the owner. A middleaged former Miss Fyn called Susse. Slowly an unusual love affair begins. Tommy's two friends Ole & Flemming give him tips on how to give Golden Sun some masculine appeal. Susse just happens to have a sleazy lawyer that does not appreciate the new look.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Irene Papas (actress), Paul Cox (producer), Paul Cox (writer), Paul Cox (director), John Scott (editor), François Bernard (actor), Chris Haywood (actor), Norman Kaye (actor), Takis Emmanuel (producer), William T. Marshall (producer), Oliver Streeton (miscellaneous crew), Eva Sitta (actress), Fiona Eagger (miscellaneous crew), Anoja Weerasinghe (actress), Tassos Ioannides (actor),
Plot: A formerly rich Czech-Australian emigrant comes to a tiny, poor and sleepy Greek Island to rethink her life. Suprisingly she develops a sincere relationship with two other women who each in their own way suffer from their pasts. As time goes past sins and frustrations do get revealed. Some of them are solved, while the others still remain swallowing the women.
Keywords: europe, greece, independent-film, islandActors: Frank Hagney (actor), Bobby Hale (actor), Lawrence Grant (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Victor Francen (actor), Arthur Gould-Porter (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Harry Cording (actor), George Coulouris (actor), Cyril Delevanti (actor), Colin Campbell (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Creighton Hale (actor),
Plot: During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter.
Keywords: based-on-novel, betrayal, child-murder, coal, coal-miner, defenestration, false-accusation, fascist, flat-tire, foreign-agent